🚀 PathForge

Your Personalized Career Transition Copilot

We are eradicating the "one-size-fits-all" career advice model by giving everyone an personalized, adaptive, AI-driven roadmap.

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🎯 The Problem

People burn out when trying to pivot careers because they're told to start from scratch. Career transitions are guided by generic advice, disjointed courses, and zero context about a person's existing skills. Most people give up because they cannot translate what they already know into the language of the new field.

The result: Millions of highly capable professionals feel stuck in unfulfilling roles despite the global talent shortage.

💡 Our Solution

PathForge is a personalized career transition co-pilot that dynamically builds an adaptive execution roadmap. Instead of telling a teacher who wants to be a Data Analyst to "learn SQL," PathForge translates SQL concepts into the pedagogical frameworks they already understand.

Why It's "10x Better"

• Context-Aware Analogies: We use AI to map target-role concepts directly to analogies from the user's current role.
• Adaptive Execution: Weekly tasks dynamically shift complexity based on real-time voice reflections (speech-to-text logged via Braintrust).
• Physical Integration: We don't just assign online courses. We deploy Gemini Search to drop high-priority local, real-world networking events right into their weekly tasks.
• Confidence Over Content: By showing users how much of the new role they already understand, we dramatically cut down the time to competence.

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📈 Traction & Accomplishments

• 🏎️ End-to-End Workflow Built: Complete intake-to-roadmap adaptive loop developed.
• 🔁 Dynamic AI Adaptation Layer: Engineered the capacity for AI to tweak weekly goals non-destructively based on user check-in data.
• 🗣️ Continuous Feedback Engine: Seamlessly integrated batch external STT and Gemini 2.5-flash for high-speed, emotion-aware user check-ins.

🛠️ The Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion
• Backend: Node.js, Express, TypeScript, SQLite
• Intelligence: Google Gemini (gemini-2.5-flash), Google Custom Search for real-time events, Braintrust for AI Observability

🚀 Run It Locally

Backend Setup

cd backend
npm install
cp .env.example .env # Add your Gemini & STT API keys here
npm run dev

Frontend Setup

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

🔮 What's Next

• Move persistence from localStorage to fully integrated backend Postgres/SQLite models with Auth.
• Introduce role-specific roadmap templates and benchmark milestones.
• Expand data analytics to flag risks, consistency trends, and estimated job-readiness scores.

PathForge ensures no one starts over from scratch. You already have the skills; we just give you the new tools to express them.